First Mr. Bush vetoes healthcare for low-income American children. Now, though it defies belief, Laura Bush is going to the Middle East to promote healthcare and cancer awareness. Yes, you heard me, promote healthcare.
This belongs in the I can't believe it department. But every word is true. These people have no shame. They are evil, sick, amoral soulless creatures vultures who suck the lifeblood from the most vulnerable among us.
I kid you not. You can't make this crap up.
In Jordan, Mrs. Bush will visit the King Hussein Cancer Center to unveil a model of Jordan's first community breast cancer screening center and announce the expansion of the partnership to additional countries in the Middle East. She will also tour the facility, highlighting how it uses new technology in breast cancer care and meet with child cancer patients. Mrs. Bush also will visit the UNESCO World Heritage site in Petra, an ancient city in southwestern Jordan, and meet with Jordan's King Abdullah.
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Okay folks, so we're being told that Laura Bush is heading overseas on Saturday to start a six-day visit to the Middle East in an effort to promote breast cancer awareness and treatment. Bush plans to visit the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Jordan during the visit. This latest White House photo op is occuring against the backdrop of the mind-numbing and outrageous SCHIP veto, and the plight of 47 million uninsured Americans who have no access to basic healthcare.
Like I said, you can't invent this stuff.
Here at home, American women like Natashia Pierre are facing financial ruin despite having the wonderful private, for-profit insurance, Laura's demented husband promotes. These are his words: "And the policies of the government ought to be, help people find private insurance, not federal coverage."
Pierre, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in January 2007, is insured through her husband and pays 20 percent of her medical bills out-of-pocket.
Her monthly co-pay for chemotherapy is $500, and she is still struggling to pay the $1,000 fee from her lumpectomy earlier this year. She says debt collectors call her home every day.
"How do I tell my kids they can't have lunch money because mommy has cancer?" she said. "It's so frustrating. My husband has to work all the time, to keep the health insurance. He can't even take time off when I have surgery."
"We're not middle class and we're not poor — and we get no assistance."
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I've been laying low lately. In all candor suffering from serious outrage fatigue. Stories like this, help to pull me out of my self-imposed torpor.
Pierre's situation is not unique. Numerous posts on the ABC OnCall Plus Breast Cancer site testify to the fact that paying for breast cancer screening and treatment is a top concern. These worries affect both those without health insurance as well as those who are underinsured, meaning that they don't have adequate coverage to pay their bills in the event of a major medical problem.
According to a recent survey conducted by USA Today/Kaiser Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health, 33 percent of cancer patients have trouble paying medical bills and 43 percent report skipping treatments or not filling prescriptions because of the cost.
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I'm going to share a secret with you. The reason this depraved soul is going overseas is because she cannot look an American citizen named Natashia Pierre in the eye. So she runs. Read on, read about the plight of millions of Americans who cannot afford cancer treatment. So Laura does the waltz of a cornered coward, she learned the bob and weave shuffle from the biggest coward of all. Cowards run rather than face the consequences. He Mr. Bush ran went AWOL rather than serve in the military.
"For millions of people with cancer, there is little hope when the costs of treatment are more than they can afford," said Steven Weiss, senior director of communications and media advocacy at the American Cancer Society (ACS).
"Some pharmaceutical companies offer drugs for little or no cost to those in need — called 'charity care,'" he said. "But for those who cannot benefit from these limited offerings, the choice often comes down to paying for treatment or paying for daily needs such as food, electricity or the mortgage."
The American landscape is a rotting plain of despair, grief, and misery. But in 2008, the American people will speak roar. Laura and her political allies will come face to face with Americans like Natashia Pierre whom they have savaged for eight long terrible years.
Natashia Pierre, Graeme Frost and millions more just like them, are the worst nightmares of Laura Bush, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, et al., and the bankrupt and maggot-infested republican party.